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  1. L

    I have a problem

    Solon, one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, said: "In giving advice, seek to help, not please your friend." BJ
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    Unknown Percussionlock

    Looks like it might be a pill-lock, or a variation of Forsythe's "scent bottle lock". Small pellets of fulminate are placed in the cylindrical part in front of the hammer and dispensed into a depression under the hammer nose by pushing down the plunger. When the hammer falls, its linkage...
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    Ball diameter for .54 GPR

    Our local 'Mall Wart' gave up selling guns a couple of years ago in response to heavy pressure from "forces for Good in the community". They have shotshells, targets, clay birds, cleaning kits and patches, mothballs, ping pong balls, but no round lead balls. The closest sources of real black...
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    GPR info needed

    Just my two bits, but every time I go to the range and see a newbie loading the maximum charge he can measure, and blowing his groups all over the backstop, I let him stew for a bit, then (politely) suggest that he try cutting his load in half, or less. Seeing is believing, or so they say, and...
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    Ball diameter for .54 GPR

    Hi Gents: Two questions with regard to the flintlock Lyman Great Plains Rifle in .54 caliber--- First: I am building this from a kit and am getting close to test shooting for target work. I have seen about an equal number of posts as to which round ball shoots better: the .530 or the .535...
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    Set the 'Wayback Machine'

    I went to high school in NYC in the very late '40s and used to haunt Bob Abels' shop at 860 Lexington Ave. almost daily on my way home from school--Saturdays too. Bob was so patient; he had a constant stream of phone calls and correspondence to take care of, but always took time to answer my...
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    Cutting slots in barrel keys

    That's the sensible approach if a slot already exists, and I've done that before. My problem with the Lyman GPR keys is that they are made of pretty thick solid stock, so I was very happy that the Dremel grinding disk did the trick. BJ
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    Tang "Hood"?

    FWIW: Try one of those formed brass nipple shields (also available from TOW and others), not the shallow one shaped like a bowl but the one shaped like a styrofoam cup (wider at the top than the bottom). Then if you aren't pleased with the results you can always remove it and go with the...
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    Cutting patches at the muzzle

    Does your muzzle have burrs sticking out that would interfere with the cutter? Seems unlikely, but if so, carefully file the muzzle face flush and get rid of the burrs. Second, try seating the top of the ball just below the muzzle face so your cutter doesn't knick the ball. You should be good...
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    Underhammers

    Try the member who calls himself fw.
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    Cutting slots in barrel keys

    Over the years I've lost more than my legal limit of barrel keys when in the field, so decided to make all barrel keys 'captive' with a finishing nail into the barrel channel. I've had the worst luck trying to drill a straight line of holes through the key, then finish up with a too-small file...
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    lever action percusion

    Didn't the flintlock Brunswick rifle use a belted ball, too? I think the "Sharpe's Rules" series about the Peninsula Campaign on PBS featured the Brunswick, but plot emphasis was not on the particular rifle so much as that the company of riflemen was an anomaly in an expeditionary force...
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    texas underhammers

    Runner: Can you explain to us what bars underhammer guns from shoots? Maybe the folks who complain the loudest about 'unfair advantages' of underhammers (whatever they might be) need to be re-educated. I can understand why guns of the type I am not aloud to say out loud on this Forum would be...
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    texas underhammers

    Sorry Davy, I'm too "old school" ”” don't have a cell phone or a digital camera. If I can borrow my son's camera and download images to my computer I'll try to post them here. My rifle is very plain and it's a delight to see such a well-figured piece of curly maple show up on an otherwise...
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    texas underhammers

    Wow, what a peach!! Looks identical to my specimen, except mine has a brass capbox (different shape) and is stocked in curly maple. This one looks like cherry, another traditional New England wood for stocks.
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